Shrek the Musical continues at the Eventim Apollo, London until 31 August 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It delivers spectacle, toilet humour, cuteness and a quotidian but time-tested plot without apology.
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London run of Shrek the Musical to feature Todrick Hall as Donkey
Singer/songwriter and choreographer Todrick Hall will join the London cast for of Shrek the Musical when the hit touring production plays at the Eventim Apollo for six weeks this summer.
Shrek The Musical – New Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
Shrek The Musical continues at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London until 30 September 2023. The tour continues until 21 April 2024. Star rating: two stars ★ ★
More details about The National Lottery’s Big Night of Musicals
The National Lottery’s Big Night of Musicals will be broadcast on BBC1 on Saturday 25 March 2023 at 7.50pm. For a second year, the event was held at the AO Arena, Manchester.
New Shrek tour – principal cast announced
Antony Lawrence will star as Shrek opposite Joanne Clifton’s Princess Fiona when the highly anticipated new production of Shrek The Musical hits the road for a major UK and Ireland tour this summer.
First Theatre Café Diner opens in London
The UK’s first Theatre Café Diner has opened in the heart of London’s theatreland. Covering two floors at 154 Shaftesbury Avenue, The Theatre Café Diner aims to offer a full theatrical dining experience mixing classic high quality diner food with a waiting team singing musical theatre classics and walls covered in theatrical memorabilia.
Shrek The Musical to be re-imagined for new UK and Ireland tour in 2023
A new production of Shrek The Musical will hit the road for a major UK and Ireland tour launching next summer. Presented by Mark Goucher, Gavin Kalin and Matthew Gale, the hit fairy tale with the green-tinged twist will be re-imagined for a new audience by a new creative team led by former Lord Farquaad, […]
Shrek the Musical – Blackpool Opera House & Touring
Shrek the Musical continues at Blackpool Opera House until 27 May 2018 as part of a national tour. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Time was when a major musical of this scale would have filled the Opera House stage (if not the spacious auditorium itself) for the best part of a summer season […]
Shrek the Musical – Palace Theatre, Manchester and Touring
Shrek the Musical continues at the Palace Theatre, Manchester until 28 January 2018, then tours until 6 January 2019. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ As befitting its main character’s less-than-sunny disposition, the story of Shrek’s journey from animated movie to stage musical hasn’t been a totally happy one. Its first Broadway […]
Amelia Lily to join Shrek touring production
Former X Factor star Amelia Lily will join the touring production of the hit fairy tale with the green-tinged twist, Shrek The Musical in April 2018. The singer, who appeared in the West End premiere production of Green Day’s American Idiot, will share the role of Princess Fiona with Call the Midwife’s Laura Main while […]
Lead cast for second Shrek UK and Ireland tour revealed
Steffan Harri will step into the title role in the upcoming touring production of the hit fairy tale with the green-tinged twist, Shrek The Musical. Harri, who previously covered the role of Lord Farquaad in the first UK and Ireland tour of the Dreamworks Theatricals musical will take on the role of the outsize ogre […]
Shrek the Musical tour – new dates announced
New dates have been announced for the 2017/2018 tour of the hit fairy tale with the green-tinged twist, Shrek the Musical. The second major tour of the Dreamworks Theatricals’ musical hit will now play dates in Sheffield, Cardiff, Woking, Liverpool, Canterbury, Milton Keynes, Bristol, Llandudno and Leeds. As previously announced, the outsize ogre will initially take to […]
Shrek The Musical is heading for Blackpool in 2018
The hit fairy tale with the green-tinged twist, Shrek The Musical will take over the Blackpool Opera House next May as part of its second major tour. Nigel Harman will once again take charge of the touring production of the show when the musical tale of Shrek, Princess Fiona, Donkey and co hits the road […]
Shrek the Musical – New Wimbledon Theatre and Touring
Shrek the Musical continues at the New Wimbledon Theatre, London until 31 January, then tours until 20 February. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Following a successful run both on Broadway and in the West End, the musical version of Dreamworks’ Shrek set out on a UK tour in 2014. Two years later […]
Shrek the Musical – casting update for second year on tour
Full casting has been revealed for the UK and Ireland tour of Shrek the Musical as it enters its second year on the road. The 2015 company will star Dean Chisnall who will continue his role as beloved swamp-dwelling ogre Shrek, the role he previously played in the West End. Bronté Barbé will also star as damsel in distress Princess Fiona, […]
Shrek the Musical – Grand Theatre, Leeds
Shrek the Musical continues at the Grand Theatre, Leeds to 17 August, then tours until September 2015. Shrek, the grumpy green ogre who was the unlikely love interest in the vastly popular DreamWorks movie and the Theatre Royal Drury Lane production in 2011, has plenty to grouch about, including being booted out of his home aged seven […]
Shrek the Musical tour – casting revealed
Casting has been revealed for the first ever UK and Ireland tour of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane production of Shrek the Musical. Dean Chisnall will play the beloved swamp-dwelling ogre Shrek, the role he previously played in the West End, Faye Brookes is damsel in distress Princess Fiona, Idriss Kargbo is Shrek’s wisecracking sidekick Donkey and […]
Introducing Glass Half Full Productions
Launched this week, Glass Half Full Productions is a new production company aiming to produce musicals, plays and comedy both in the UK and US in partnership with Just For Laughs Theatricals. CEO of Just For Laughs, Adam Blanshay (who won a Tony Award as co-producer on the Broadway musical Kinky Boots) has teamed up […]
Shrek the Musical – Harman directs the tour
Shrek the Musical will be heading out on its first ever tour of UK and Ireland from July 2014. The Drury Lane production will be directed by Nigel Harman who starred as Lord Farquaad in the West End production, a role which won him the 2012 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in […]
